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I have some dear friends who are mourning right now.<\/p>\n

They have lost people dear to their hearts. Fathers. Friends. Children.<\/p>\n

It is loss, loss, loss.<\/p>\n

And I saw someone today who spontaneously broke into tears when we met eyes.<\/p>\n

This is the body and the mind doing their beautiful work.<\/p>\n

Our tears are full of all of our frustration. Our sadness. Our inability to change what life has handed us.<\/p>\n

Grief, in all its forms, is the way humans move forward. Our rituals are an elegant example of how we celebrate a soul leaving at the same time that we publicly grieve them. It says to the world, “I love the person who has died. I am so deeply sad. And I love you. Thank you for witnessing my grief and sharing it with me.”<\/p>\n

This idea of crying and witnessing…of holding someone while they grieve, this IS what it is to be a toddler and preschooler.<\/p>\n

Their emotions ARE this big.<\/p>\n

We parents don’t like to think so. We like to downplay everything. We like to apply our savvy rationale to everything. “How silly. How small. How unimportant.”<\/p>\n

But to a three year old? Loss is loss is loss.<\/p>\n

And what works for US (witnessing, holding, talking, acknowledging, kindness, hugging, a smile) works for CHILDREN.<\/p>\n

Oh, humans have complicated so much with our studies and our books and our trends…but everything is so damn elemental.<\/p>\n

So shared.<\/p>\n

So true.<\/p>\n

You don’t have to look anywhere or read one book to know how to help someone grieve.<\/p>\n

Just be brave enough to do it.<\/p>\n

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